Top Names of 1904
The most popular names recorded in 1904 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 14,961 |
| 2 | Helen | 6,488 |
| 3 | Anna | 5,330 |
| 4 | Margaret | 5,302 |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,900 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 3,833 |
| 7 | Marie | 3,595 |
| 8 | Florence | 3,572 |
| 9 | Mildred | 3,525 |
| 10 | Dorothy | 3,477 |
| 11 | Ethel | 3,296 |
| 12 | Lillian | 3,139 |
| 13 | Alice | 3,131 |
| 14 | Gladys | 2,976 |
| 15 | Edna | 2,762 |
| 16 | Frances | 2,657 |
| 17 | Annie | 2,631 |
| 18 | Rose | 2,631 |
| 19 | Grace | 2,513 |
| 20 | Bertha | 2,363 |
| 21 | Bessie | 2,340 |
| 22 | Emma | 2,312 |
| 23 | Hazel | 2,301 |
| 24 | Clara | 2,281 |
| 25 | Gertrude | 2,269 |
| 26 | Irene | 2,212 |
| 27 | Mabel | 2,172 |
| 28 | Louise | 2,136 |
| 29 | Martha | 2,019 |
| 30 | Pearl | 2,015 |
| 31 | Catherine | 1,983 |
| 32 | Esther | 1,957 |
| 33 | Edith | 1,944 |
| 34 | Myrtle | 1,905 |
| 35 | Minnie | 1,885 |
| 36 | Eva | 1,858 |
| 37 | Thelma | 1,757 |
| 38 | Ida | 1,751 |
| 39 | Elsie | 1,719 |
| 40 | Josephine | 1,701 |
| 41 | Ruby | 1,701 |
| 42 | Agnes | 1,672 |
| 43 | Sarah | 1,594 |
| 44 | Nellie | 1,560 |
| 45 | Beatrice | 1,549 |
| 46 | Viola | 1,545 |
| 47 | Laura | 1,508 |
| 48 | Ella | 1,432 |
| 49 | Julia | 1,426 |
| 50 | Evelyn | 1,372 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,108 |
| 2 | William | 6,416 |
| 3 | James | 5,855 |
| 4 | George | 4,219 |
| 5 | Robert | 3,414 |
| 6 | Charles | 3,406 |
| 7 | Joseph | 3,291 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,799 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,335 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,085 |
| 11 | Thomas | 2,057 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,873 |
| 13 | Harry | 1,722 |
| 14 | Willie | 1,675 |
| 15 | Arthur | 1,495 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,453 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,310 |
| 18 | Fred | 1,223 |
| 19 | Paul | 1,194 |
| 20 | Harold | 1,186 |
| 21 | Roy | 1,123 |
| 22 | Raymond | 1,093 |
| 23 | Joe | 959 |
| 24 | Richard | 957 |
| 25 | Carl | 953 |
| 26 | Louis | 936 |
| 27 | Jack | 908 |
| 28 | Ralph | 899 |
| 29 | Earl | 854 |
| 30 | Theodore | 834 |
| 31 | David | 817 |
| 32 | Ernest | 749 |
| 33 | Charlie | 739 |
| 34 | Samuel | 727 |
| 35 | Howard | 726 |
| 36 | Francis | 686 |
| 37 | Herbert | 680 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 662 |
| 39 | Elmer | 620 |
| 40 | Sam | 603 |
| 41 | Alfred | 600 |
| 42 | Leo | 552 |
| 43 | Andrew | 546 |
| 44 | Eugene | 541 |
| 45 | Lee | 532 |
| 46 | Leonard | 508 |
| 47 | Herman | 497 |
| 48 | Russell | 473 |
| 49 | Daniel | 472 |
| 50 | Michael | 462 |